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Buddy Adler

 
Writer: Buddy Adler
  • Born: Jun 22, 1909 in New York City, New York
  • Died: Jul 12, 1960
  • Occupation: Writer
  • Active: '50s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Romance
  • Career Highlights: South Pacific, Bus Stop, Anastasia
  • First Major Screen Credit: Wedding Bills (1940)

Biography

Academy Award-winning producer and former production head for 20th Century Fox, Maurice "Buddy" Adler produced some of Hollywood's most beloved films during his 20-year career. The son of the famed elevator-shoe salesman, Adler started out writing advertisements for his father. He then began penning short magazine stories until 1935 when he began writing short films for MGM. His MGM short Quicker 'n a Wink(1940) won the Oscar for "Best Short Subject." During WW II, he served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Army Pictorial Service. He went on to work as a producer for Columbia in 1947. Six years later he won another Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953). In 1956, he succeeded Darryl Zanuck and became the head of Fox, a position he held until he died during the preproduction work on the ill-fated Cleopatra (1963). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Maurice Adler
Born E. Maurice Adler
June 22, 1909(1909-06-22)
New York City
Died July 22, 1960 (aged 51)
Los Angeles, California
Years active 1939-1959
Spouse(s) Anita Louise (1940-1960)

E. Maurice "Buddy" Adler (June 22, 1909July 22, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film producer and a former production head for 20th Century Fox studios.

Born in New York City, New York, he married in 1940 actress Anita Louise Fremault (1915-1970) with whom he had two children.

In 1954, his production of From Here to Eternity won the Academy Award for Best Picture and in 1956, his Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing was nominated for best picture. Adler is also remembered for producing the 1956 film Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe.

Adler was the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1957. The following year he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

Buddy Adler died of lung cancer at the age of fifty-one in Los Angeles and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His wife, who co-starred with Johnny Washbrook, Gene Evans, and Frank Ferguson in My Friend Flicka, Fox's first filmed series, died ten years later.

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